President-elect Donald Trump’s picks for key cabinet and administrative posts show he is serious about reining in environmental regulations and rationalizing the nation’s climate and energy policies, thereby removing barriers to job growth, economic progress and improved national security.

Over the past decade, we’ve witnessed a decline in the level of trust in government, and a rise in distrust, to levels unprecedented in American history. But to think this is an entirely new phenomenon is a mistake: trust in government has steadily declined since the Great Society and the Vietnam War under Lyndon Johnson.